Managed Healthcare Executive January 6, 2022
David Lareau

There is a great deal of speculation, and apprehension, in the healthcare industry about the 21st Century Cures Act and what it will mean for EHRs and the clinicians who use them.

Consider the sources of anxiety: It will result in new reporting requirements, the need to manage multiple terminologies and code sets, the sending and receiving of clinical data, curation of incoming data, and (almost lost in the frenzy) improving usability as the industry moves to value-based care. Understandably, the cumulative effect has much of the industry on edge.

Now, factor in the issue of data transparency as patients are given access to their records, the added considerations of social determinants of health (SDOH), and the pressure to improve...

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